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Una Merkel

Una Merkel

Highest Rated: 100% Red Headed Woman (1932)

Lowest Rated: 14% The Kentuckian (1955)

Birthday: Dec 10, 1903

Birthplace: Covington, Kentucky, USA

This wry, wisecracking blonde never became a star, but brightened up scores of films in the 1930s as the heroine's pal, co-worker or rival. The Kentucky native got her start as a model, drifting into acting in the mid-20s. By 1927, she was appearing on Broadway with Helen Hayes in "Coquette" and three years later was discovered by D.W. Griffith, who cast her as the wan, tragic Ann Rutledge in "Abraham Lincoln."

Highest rated movies

100% True Confession
100% Red Headed Woman
96% The Bank Dick
96% Destry Rides Again
96% 42nd Street
90% The Parent Trap
90% Broadway Melody of 1936
90% Bombshell

Photos

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Una Merkel, 1930 ONE NEW YORK NIGHT, from left: Franchot Tone, Ina Merkel, 1935 WICKED, Una Merkel, 1931, TM and Copyright (c) 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. All Rights Reseved BEAUTY FOR SALE, Una Merkel, Madge Evans, 1933 PRIVATE LIVES, Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Una Merkel, 1931 THE BAT WHISPERS, Una Merkel, Spencer Charters, 1930 ROAD TO ZANZIBAR, Una Merkel, 1941 42ND STREET, Una Merkel, Ruby Keeler, George E. Stone, 1933 BORN TO DANCE, Frances Langford, Buddy Ebsen, Eleanor Powell, James Stewart, Una Merkel, Sid Silvers, 1936 ONE NEW YORK NIGHT, from left: Una Merkel, Franchot Tone, 1935 BEAUTY FOR SALE, Madge Evans, Una Merkel, Florine McKinney, 1933 BEAUTY FOR SALE, Florine McKinney, Madge Evans, Una Merkel, 1933 BORN TO DANCE, Frances Langford, Buddy Ebsen, Eleanor Powell, James Stewart, Una Merkel, Sid Silvers, 1936 TRUE CONFESSION, Wesley Ruggles (in two-toned shoes), directing (from left), Carole Lombard, Una Merkel, 1937 BORN TO DANCE, Buddy Ebsen, Sid Silvers, Una Merkel, James Stewart, Eleanor Powell, Alan Dinehart, Frances Langford, Raymond Walburn, 1936 BEAUTY FOR SALE, Florine McKinney, Madge Evans, Una Merkel, 1933 BORN TO DANCE, Una Merkel, Sid Silvers, Juanita Quigley, Eleanor Powell, James Stewart, 1936 MALTESE FALCON, (aka DANGEROUS FEMALE), Una Merkel, Ricardo Cortez, (as Sam Spade), etc, 1931, THE MERRY WIDOW, Fernando Lamas, Una Merkel, 1952 THE BANK DICK, W.C. Fields, Una Merkel, Evelyn Del Rio, 1940
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
33% 49% Spinout Violet Ranley (Character) - 1966
No Score Yet 76% Summer Magic Mariah Popham (Character) - 1963
No Score Yet 55% Summer and Smoke Mrs. Winemiller (Character) - 1961
90% 75% The Parent Trap Verbena (Character) - 1961
No Score Yet 54% The Mating Game Ma Larkin (Character) - 1959
No Score Yet 38% The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown Bertha (Character) - 1957
No Score Yet 17% The Girl Most Likely Mother (Character) - 1957
No Score Yet 65% Bundle of Joy Mrs. Dugan (Character) - 1956
No Score Yet 67% The Kettles in the Ozarks Miss Bedelia Baines (Character) - 1956
14% 43% The Kentuckian Sophie Wakefield (Character) - 1955
No Score Yet 55% I Love Melvin Mom Schneider (Character) - 1953
57% 62% With a Song in My Heart Sister Marie (Character) - 1952
No Score Yet 53% The Merry Widow Kitty Riley (Character) - 1952
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Millionaire for Christy Patsy Clifford (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet 17% Rich, Young and Pretty Glynnie (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet 62% Kill the Umpire Betty Johnson (Character) - 1950
No Score Yet 62% My Blue Heaven Miss Irma Gilbert (Character) - 1950
No Score Yet No Score Yet Emergency Wedding Emma (Character) - 1950
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Bride Goes Wild Miss Doberly (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Man From Texas Widow Weeks (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet 40% It's a Joke, Son Mrs.Magnolia Claghorn (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sweethearts of the U.S.A. Patsy (Character) - 1944
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Mad Doctor of Market Street Aunt Margaret Wentworth (Character) - 1942
89% 61% Road to Zanzibar Julia Quimby (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cracked Nuts Sharon Knight (Character) - 1941
96% 74% The Bank Dick Myrtle Sousé (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet No Score Yet Comin' Round the Mountain Belinda Watters (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sandy Gets Her Man Nan Clark (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet No Score Yet Four Girls in White Gertie Robbins (Character) - 1939
96% 82% Destry Rides Again Lily Belle (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet 100% On Borrowed Time Marcia Giles (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet 57% Rhythm Romance Flo Saunders (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet No Score Yet Checkers Mamie Appleby (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet 86% Saratoga Fritzi (Character) - 1937
100% 46% True Confession Daisy McClure (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Good Old Soak Nellie (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet No Score Yet Don't Tell the Wife Nancy Dorsey (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet 50% Born to Dance Jenny Saks (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet 20% Speed Josephine `'Jo'` Sanderson (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet We Went to College Susan Standish (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet It's in the Air Alice Lane Churchill (Character) - 1935
90% 76% Broadway Melody of 1936 Kitty Corbett (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet 48% Riffraff Lil (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet Murder in the Fleet "Toots" Timmons (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet Biography of a Bachelor Girl Slade Kinnicott (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet Baby Face Harrington Millicent (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet One New York Night Phoebe (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Night Is Young Fanni Kerner (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet 60% Evelyn Prentice Amy Drexel (Character) - 1934
82% 78% The Merry Widow Queen Dolores (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet No Score Yet Have a Heart Joan O'Day (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet 56% The Cat's Paw Pat Pratt (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet No Score Yet This Side of Heaven Birdie (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet 17% Murder in the Private Car Georgia (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet No Score Yet Paris Interlude Cassie Bond (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet No Score Yet Clear All Wires Dolly (Character) - 1933
90% 76% Bombshell Mac (Character) - 1933
96% 74% 42nd Street Lorraine Fleming (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet Menu Mrs. Omsk (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet Her First Mate Unknown (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet 69% Midnight Mary Bunny (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet Beauty for Sale Carol Merrick (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Secret of Madame Blanche Ella (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet Scared Toby Van Buren (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet Whistling in the Dark Toby Van Buren (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Women in His Life Simmons (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet 43% Man Wanted Ruth "Ruthie" Holman (Character) - 1932
100% 70% Red Headed Woman Sally (Lillian's roommate) (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet No Score Yet Huddle Thelma (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet 64% They Call It Sin Dixie Dare (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet No Score Yet Impatient Maiden Unknown (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet 60% She Wanted a Millionaire Mary Taylor (Character) - 1932
80% 60% Private Lives Sibyl Chase (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet No Score Yet Wicked June (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet No Score Yet All Women Are Bad Tallulah Hope (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet No Score Yet Daddy Long Legs Sally McBride (Character) - 1931
64% 53% The Bat Whispers Dale Van Gorder (Character) - 1930
75% 37% Abraham Lincoln Ann Rutledge (Character) - 1930

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet I Spy Unknown (Guest Star) 1968
No Score Yet No Score Yet Climax! Unknown (Character) 1957
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Red Skelton Show Unknown (Character) 1957
No Score Yet No Score Yet Studio One Unknown (Character) 1954